The United Auto Workers union already represents employees at several Flex-N-Gate factories, and is campaigning to organize others.
The United Auto Workers union favors a national health care program, something that Detroit automakers have yet to endorse.
He wants to see the companies reduce their debt load and further concessions by the United Auto Workers union.
Chrysler is currently in talks with the United Auto Workers Union (UAW), over pay and benefits for its staff.
And in fact, his branch of the United Auto Workers Union doesn't represent a single employee from the manufacturing industries.
Negotiations with the United Auto Workers union on a new national contract begin this summer at all three U.S. automakers.
The United Auto Workers Union, whose support could prove decisive in industrial areas of the state, has not endorsed either Democrat.
Only when Ford's "great believer, " his wife, Clara, threatens to leave does he sign an agreement with the United Auto Workers union.
But by no means should the Big Three, their suppliers, dealers or the United Auto Workers union breathe a sigh of relief.
Any formal representation doesn't necessarily mean the UAW (United Auto Workers union).
But it wasn't until October, during contract talks with the Canadian Auto Workers union (CAW), that Chrysler settled on Canada for a location.
The Jobs Bank was set up by mutual agreement between U.S. automakers and the United Auto Workers union to protect workers from layoffs.
There is opposition from the United Auto Workers union, whose backing will be crucial for Mr Obama in the presidential election next year.
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The United Auto Workers union has a great deal of influence in Michigan politics, and nonunion plants are highly unpopular in the Wolverine State.
His popularity suffered late last year after he signed right-to-work legislation that weakened organized labor in the home of the United Auto Workers union.
And today their top executives, as well as the Auto Workers Union leader, will be asking U.S. senators to help them get the money.
And his surprise announcement managed to deflect pressure onto the United Auto Workers union, which has been none too cooperative with Chrysler in recent months.
Ron Gettelfinger, the president of the United Auto Workers union, got his members to accept two-tier wages and big concessions on the health-care and retirement plans.
Rick Doty, the president of the local United Auto Workers union, has a Barack Obama commemorative plate on his desk and big hopes for the stimulus.
The United Auto Workers union, having looted and stripped Detroit bare, have set their sights south, to the right-to-work states and the foreign-owned auto plants they host.
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He says American car manufacturers are constantly at odds with the United Auto Workers union as well as their suppliers and customers rather than working with these people.
Three weeks ago, the administration brokered a bankruptcy for Chrysler, forcing the company's bondholders to take a backseat to the United Auto Workers union as the company reorganizes.
The Sonic is manufactured in Michigan, thanks to a novel labor agreement worked out between GM and the United Auto Workers union (with a little prodding from the Obama Administration).
Ron Gettelfinger, the sole American employee representative on DaimlerChrysler's board, and the United Auto Workers union president, had also opposed selling Chrysler to a private-equity suitor because it could spell job losses.
Members of the United Auto Workers union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the Steelworkers, teachers unions and others planned to board buses, joined by even some protestors from rival neighboring state Ohio.
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First, let's dismiss the laughable idea that the United Auto Workers union will recognize the problem and willingly cut the burdens, freeze the already-rich pensions and make workers contribute far more to pensions and retiree health care.
While General Motors managed to hold the line on fixed costs in its tentative contract with the United Auto Workers union, the company will still be dishing out plenty of cash to workers over the next four years.
The government plans to sell about one-fifth of its 61% stake in GM, and the United Auto Workers union, which owns about 10% through a health care trust for retired workers, also plans to unload some of its shares.
The plant in Belvidere, Illinois, which produces the slow-selling Neon, seemed a sure bet to be shuttered, but Chrysler inadvertently outsmarted itself two years ago, when it agreed to restrictions on plant shutdowns as part of its contract with the United Auto Workers union.
But the main focus of attention is bound to be the United Auto Workers union, which is loathed not just by those Senate Republicans whose refusal to vote for a bail-out bill forced Mr Bush to act, but by many ordinary Americans in less well-paid, less secure employment.
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